Contemporary Debates in Bioethics

1. Are There Universal Ethical Principles That Should Govern the Conduct of Medicine and Research Worldwide?
2. Is It Morally Acceptable to Buy and Sell Organs for Human Transplantation?
3. Were It Physically Safe, Would Human Reproductive Cloning Be Acceptable?
4. Is the Deliberately Induced Abortion of a Human Pregnancy Ethically Justifiable?
5. Is It Ethical to Patent or Copyright Genes, Embryos, or Their Parts?
6. Should a Child Have the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment to Which the Child’s Parents or Guardians Have Consented?
7. Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Ever Ethical?
8. Should Stem-Cell Research Utilizing Embryonic Tissue Be Conducted?
9. Should We Prohibit the Use of Chimpanzees and Other Great Apes in Biomedical Research?
10. Should the United States of America Adopt Universal Healthcare?
11. Is There a Legitimate Place for Human Genetic Enhancement?
12. Can There Be Agreement as to What Constitutes Human Death?
13. Are International Clinical Trials Exploitative?

Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century. Written in an engaging, debate-style format for accessibility to non-specialists Features general introductions to each topic that precede scholarly debates Presents the latest, cutting-edge thoughts on relevant bioethics ideas, arguments, and debates